The Computer History Museum is making room for an innovative gadget that arrived in 1982 and has never stopped evolving.
By definition, any computing platform invented in the first half of the 1980s that has survived until 2015—and is an enormous business—has accomplished something remarkable. There’s the Windows PC, which traces its heritage back to the original IBM PC announced in August 1981. There’s the Mac, which famously debuted in January 1984.